'Portion' in the Bible

But a portion falls upon good ground, and gives a return, some a hundred for one, some sixty, some thirty.

and yet only one thing is really necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion and she shall not be deprived of it."

Then Philip began to speak, and, commencing with that same portion of Scripture, told him the Good News about Jesus.

We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars--the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death."